Pepper-bottle



(No Model.) Y

H. J. WHITE.

PEPPER BOTTLE.

No. 249,562. Patented N0v.15,18 8l-.

Witnesses; In re Mime N. PETERs Pholo-Lilhugmplmr. w smu mn, D c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM J. WHITE, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEPPER-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,562, dated November 15, 1881,

Application filed April 13,1881. (N0 model.)

new and useful Improvements in Pepper-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a peppepbottle with means of connecting the cover thereon in a simple, cheap, and convenient manner, as hereinafter more full y described and set forth; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of a spring-catch within the cover and an external groove around the neck of the bottle-,near the mouth of the same, as hereinafter more fully described. I

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical central section of the same.

A'represen ts a bottle, formed of glass or other suitable material, having an external groove, B, formed around the neck, near the mouth of the same; and P represents a perforated cover, formed of metal or other material, and having a vertical flange, E, adapted to fit overthe neck of the bottle, and is provided at one side in its lower edge with a projection, 0, formed internally or bent inwardly, so as to engage into the said groove B when the cap or cover is placed over the mouth of thebot'tle. This cap or cover is provided opposite the projection C with a spring-catch, ID, and an internal curved or semicircular spring, H, which rests within a slight groove formed circumferentially within the cap or cover, and has one end bent outwardly and projected through the vertical flange E thereof, and has a bearing against the inner face of the thumb piece G oi the said catch D, which is hinged or loosely connected with the said flange E by projections ti, which are passed through holes therein, and are bent .over or in any suitable manner.

It will be seen that if the thumb-piece G be pr ssed upon inwardly the catch or hooked end ,D will be freed from the groove B by c0mpressing the curved spring H, and when released therel'rom the cap orcovermay be raised at that side and removed from the bottle when required to cleanse or fill the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim ist The combination, with the bottle A, having the groove B, otthe perforated cover P, having the vertical flange E, provided with the projection 0 and the semicircular spring H, and pivoted thumb-piece G, having a catch, D, allbeing constructed and arranged substantially as t shown and described, as and for the purposes set forth.

7 HIRAM J. WHITE.

' Witnesses: v

EDMUND P. KENDnIcK, CHARLES FAY. Y 

